Announcement

For Immediate Release

March 9, 2023

Contact: Jared Stonesifer, stonesifer@pitt.edu

PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Former Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Kathy Boockvar is joining the University of Pittsburgh’s Institute for Cyber Law, Policy and Security (Pitt Cyber) as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar and an adjunct professor in the School of Law.

Pitt Cyber is pleased to announce its awardees for the Fall 2022 Pitt Cyber Accelerator Grants Program (PCAG). PCAG provides support for projects that aim to establish or reinforce Pitt and Pitt Cyber as places of distinction and excellence in cyber studies and practice. 

The Tracking Horizontal Inequalities Across Dimensions (TrIAD) Project and the Pitt Disinformation Lab (PDL) are searching for one post-doctoral fellow to help lead a series of research initiatives that model inequalities and injustices from textual documents and the social impacts of mis/dis/mal-information both online and in person.

Pitt Cyber announced today that its Pitt Disinformation Lab is receiving a $115,000 grant from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation for its project, Building Community Resilience Against Disinformation in Western Pennsylvania.

The effort seeks to develop and create a replicable model of how to build resilience in individual communities, while driving a better understanding of how civil society can thrive in the face of social-media fueled disinformation and increasing distrust in institutions.

The Pitt Disinformation Lab at Pitt Cyber is honored to host this year’s Institute of Politics’ Elsie Hillman Civic Forum’s Ambassadors for Civic Engagement (ACE) Fellows.

The lab’s mission is to create and leverage a new hybrid, multiscale understanding of disinformation ecosystems to drive actions that will effectively counter these disruptive trends.